CVPR Week 8: Renal diseases Part B Flashcards
SLE AKA
Systemic lupus erythematosus
SLE pathology
auto-immune disease
SLE is most common in?
- Women
- and is 2-3 times more common in black and hispanic populations
SLE clinical consistency
clinically very heterogenous
SLE organ systems affected
affects multiple organ systems and is a multi-system disease
SLE hallmark
- auto-antibodies
- ANA, anti-double stranded DNA, anti-Smith antibody
SLE diagnostic criteria

SLE skin findings
Malar Rash
Lupus nephritis
- Renal disease causes significant morbidity and mortality
- Glomerulonephritis WHO classes I-VI
Lupus nephritis pathology
- Caused by immune complex deposits (deposits may cause GBM duplication called “tram-tracking”
Lupus nephritis immunofluorescence microscopy
staining for IgG, IgA, IgM, C3, C1q (=full house)
Lupus nephritis full house

Classifications of Lupus Nephritis

Class I Lupus nephritis
minimal or no abnormality
Class II Lupus nephritis
mesangial GN
Class III Lupus nephritis
Focal proliferative GN
Class IV Lupus nephritis
diffuse proliferative GN (most common)
Class V Lupus nephritis
membranous lupus nephritis
Class VI Lupus nephritis
chronic with glomerular scarring
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What is Amyloidosis?
- A group of systemic diseases defined by deposits of extracellular fibrillar proteins
Amyloidosis pathology
Deposits of extracellular fibrillar proteins
- deposits cause tissue damage and impair organ function
- Deposits are of abnormal misfolded proteins that normally would be degraded by macrophages
Amyloidosis is associated with?
neoplastic, inflammatory and inherited disorders
Amyloid definition
- Amyloid is a broad term encompassing > 20 different proteins that can form abnormal fibrils
- Fibrils with beta-pleated sheet conformation
How are amyloid fibrils arranged
in beta-pleated sheets
Most common forms of systemic amyloidosis
- Amyloid light chain
- Amyloid-associated
AL protein AKA
Amyloid light chain
AA type protein AKA
Amyloid-associated
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Renal amyloidosis light microscopy
- Amyloid deposited in glomerulus
- widening of mesangial matrix and GBM
- Obliterates capillary lumens
- Deposits in arteries, arterioles, peritubular (deposits are extracellular)
Describe amyloid deposits
amyloid deposits begin between cells, encroaches on them
Pink (or red) color on routine histology, like melted strawberry ice cream
Renal amyloidosis special stain
Congo red dye
Renal amyloidosis as seen with Congo red dye
- Orange or red color
- apple-green birefringence under polarized light
- reflects crossed beta-pleated configuration of amyloid fibrils
Renal amyloidosis electron microscopy features
- Thin unoriented non-branching fibrins
Renal involvement in diabetes
Renal failure is the 2nd most common cause of death in diabetes (after myocardial infarction)
The key pathogenic factor for renal damage in diabetes
- formation of advanced glycation end products
- non-enzymatic glycosylation of basement membranes
Renal pathology in diabetes
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Glomerular lesions
- capillary basement membrane thickening
- diffuse glomerulosclerosis
- Nodular glomerulosclerosis Kimmelstiel-Wilson
- Pyelonephritis
- Renal arteriolosclerosis (hyalinosis) and atherosclerosis
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Pyelonephritis
- including papillary necrosis
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Prevalence of Acute Pyelonephritis
Very common, it is one of the most common kidney diseases
Acute pyelonephritis etiology
- Ascending from urethra and bladder, typically from patient’s own fecal flora
- gram-negative bacilli
- E. Coli
- Proteus
- Klebsiella
- Streptococcus faecalis
Acute pyelonephritis risk factors
- Obstruction: stones, tumors, enlarged prostate, pregnancy
- bladder dysfunction (e.g. spinal cord injury, diabetes)
- Vesico-ureteral reflux - due to incompetent vesico-ureteral valve
leading to decreased urine flow

Acute pyelonephritis features of light microscopy
- Acute inflammatory cells in tubules, interstitium, kidney pelvis, bladder and urine
- white cell casts
- Edema
- Abscess formation
- Tubular necrosis in severe cases
Acute pyelonephritis features on urinalysis
- Neutrophils in the urine
- White cell casts in the urine
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Acute pyelonephritis complications

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In the context of Acute pyelonephritis
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In the context of Acute pyelonephritis
Acute pyelonephritis can evolve?
Chronic pyelonephritis
which is the evolution into chronic inflammation with scarring
Describe chronic pyelonephritis
- When acute pyelonephritis evolves into chronic inflammation with scarring called chronic pyelonephritis
- Polar scars with blunted calices
- Tubular atrophy, chronic lymphocytic infiltrate and interstitial fibrosis
Drug-induced interstitial nephritis etiology

Drug-induced interstitial nephritis clinical features
- fever
- blood eosinophilia
- rash
- hematuria
- mild-proteinuria
- leukocyturia with eosinophils
- increased serum creatinine or acute renal failure
Drug-induced interstitial nephritis pathogenesis
abnormal immune reaction
Type I Drug-induced interstitial nephritis
- acute hypersensitivity (type I hypersensitivity reaction)
- The drug binds to proteins in tubular cells and becomes immunogenic (i.e. functions as hapten)
- Idiosyncratic, i.e. NOT dose-related
Type IV Drug-induced interstitial nephritis
- When granulomas present (less common than type I)
- Delayed-type hypersensitivity reaction (Type IV hypersensitivity reaction)
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Drug-induced interstitial nephritis features under light microscopy

Drug-induced interstitial nephritis clinical course
